Art and Culture

Transparency around the symphony's finances and decision-making is also sorely needed. The leadership’s failure to release financial documents has only added to our unease. Open dialogue and regular financial updates on operations and…
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale invites applications and nominations for the position of Executive Director, available in the summer of 2024. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale…
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MBW Views is a series of exclusive op/eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say.  The following op/ed comes from Daouda Leonard (pictured), manager of Grimes and founder of Los Angeles-based AI development studio…
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Classical music has lost a generation’s worth of music lovers beginning in the late-90s with the rise of file-sharing and Napster. A significant part of the reason might be: metadata. Metadata are the tags that travel with…
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In 2018, Kristine McDivitt-Tompkins—an American expatriate living in Chile and the former CEO of high-end outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia—donated to the Chilean…
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In March, we saw the launch of a “ChatGPT for music” called Suno, which uses generative AI to produce realistic songs on demand from short text prompts. A few weeks later, a similar competitor – Udio – arrived on the scene. I’ve…
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The average time spent daily on a phone, not counting talking on the phone, has increased in recent years, reaching 4 hours and 30 minutes as of April 2022. Some of you reading this may spend even more. A stealth crisis in…
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Fake artworks supposedly painted by Impressionist masters Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Vincent van Gogh are being sold on eBay, according to an expert art authenticator. Carina…
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In a recent recital in the auditorium of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, violinist Marina Chiche plucked at her instrument with a flurry and tempo that echoed the brisk brushstrokes in the blockbuster…
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The success of New York’s spring art auctions was in jeopardy on Sunday, a day after auction house Christie’s confirmed that its website had been hacked, potentially shutting out some bidders on $850m worth of art work going up for bids…
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